The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-08
Local and state Notes.

roads were handled on the G., l., ST. l.. IL c.
The Wabash road earned last month, 1861. 333
increase over the earnings in August, 1886,
Of SIP, 1906
The Cairo vincennes & Chicago road earned
In August $77, 631, an increase over the earn
854.
The Cleveland Leader gives carrency to the
statement that on some divisions of the Wabash
road rails have been laid for sixteen
years. and but few new crossties put in
In the month of August the sales Of tickets at
The uptown Office of the c., l., ST. l. & O. road
amounted to $8,964, being the largest sales In
any month since the company established an up
town Office.
The earnings of the Ohio Southern road.
operated by the l., B. s. W., show an increase IN
August over the corresponding period in 1886
of 1916. Last year August was one OF the pest
months for business.
Travel is now heavier that at any time this
year Pleasure-seekers are returning to their
respective homes in large numbers, and business
men moving about the country In mucn
larger force than usual
Evidently there is better feeling at c., II. &
ID. headquarters as orders have been issued to
reinstate clerks and other employees who were
let out during the period of retrenchment which
followed the Ives collapse.
The Lake Erie g. Western road in August
sarned $2OS 75o being an increase over the earn
ment the earnings of the J., 2. & G. divisions for
the two years are included.
Charles Peddle OF the Vandalia, has gotten
up an Improvement In iron turntables. At
HetheringLon 81 Berner's, this city, they
casting iron center boz for the table to rest
which weighs s. 900 pounds.
J. Van Smith, recently appointed superin-
tendent of the Philadelphia division of the Bal
timore d Ohio road, was o lost car tracer a few
years ago. and made Indianapolis his stopping
place when his services were not needed.
On Monday the Engagement at the Union
depot handled J, 952 pieces of baggage, of which
number 639 were checked out. This is said
to be the largest number of pieces of baggage
ever handled in twenty-four hours at the Union
depot.
position of chief clerk under Albert S. White,
general freight agent of the l. & ST. l.. road. E.
e. Britney, of the local office. succeeds Mr..
Pierce in the Office of division freight agent
VanWinkle
A telegram was received last evening announc-
ing the death from cancer or W. w. Browning,
who has been ticket agent of the Baltimore %
Ohio road in Baltimore for the last twenty years.
and who of the best known passenger
men in the country.
A telegram, signed by j. Charlton T. Chand-
passenger rate for the next ten days, both ways,
between ST. Louis and Kansas City, will be ST.
and equally low rates will be given to other
points IL the Deighborhood of Kansas City.
Charles Nelson, general superintendent of the
c., II. 81 d. lines, who returned from a
weeks pleasure trip a few days since, is busy
straiehtening out the affairs of the road which
had become more or less out OF line while he
was giving his attention TO managing the Van
dalia.
J. G. Everest, southern passenger agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee g st. Paul road is in the
city official business He states that, not
withdrawing the strong competition the c., M
e. st. Paul has had to contend with of late. its
passenger business has been heavy beyond par
allel
E. r. Adams, manager Of the Philadelphia g.
Readings main telegraph Office, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Philadelphia.
Reading e. Pottsville Company, with headquar-
tiers in Reading, vico o. w. Stager, who has
been made assistant superintendent of the main
line division of the railroad
The impression prevails that the Fairbanks
syndicate will be obliged to take back the Day
ton & Ironton, which was sold to the Ives syndi-
cate at a handsome figure. The property, how
ever, is valuable one, and in due time will
doubtless be a part of the c., FL. 81 ID. system,
should the present deal fall through.
Some of the strong lines, and lines which
have full representation OF their tickets
sale at the Union depot have requested the Off
Gals of the Union Railway Company to put a
stop to their baggagemen checking baggage over
roads which are not represented in the Union
depot ticket Office but sell their tickets through
the outside officers scapers.
The beauties of the excursion business are
aptly illustrated in the late excursion to Chi
cago. Hundreds of tickets now hawked
Chicago, reading "From Chicago to Indianapo-
lis" which they are Offering to sell low
fifty cents. For the present week the four roads
running between Chicago and indianapolis have
these excursion tickets to mpete with.
George n Terrence, OF Philadelphia, who is
president OF the Western Construction Com
pany, is negotiating for the construction of an
airline railroad from Detroit, Mich. to St Louis
Mo. The Fort Wayne Gazette says: HE is
promised substantial aid along the limo, and it is
expected that Fort Wayne will be asked to vote
subsidy of at least 5000 900 to secure the road
and this may be more desirable than see the
line run fifteen miles north OF us"
b. +. Sipp private secretary to j. w. Sher-
wood superin tendent of the c., T., St L. 81 G..
hal
going out the Northern Pacific. Mr. Sipp
was greatly surprised at the excellence of its
track and the accommodations they afford tray-
slers on their trains. Elegant sleeping coaches
and dining all their through
trains, and they move at high speed. He de-
scrbes the scenery as grand and beyond descrip.
ton.
f. T. Hendry, district passenger agent of the
A, T. &C. ST. Fe, with headquarters at Indian
apolis, is now acting as assistant general pas
senger agent of the road and stopping at Topeka.
The health OF II. e. Thompson is such that he
has obtained indefinite leave of absence and
IL is doubtful if he will again be able TO perform
the duties OF his position. IL he should not be
able Mr.. Hendry will, without doubt, be his
successor, as he Is well thought of by the Off
GERS on the road
Next week the c., l.. st. l.. & c. will begin
the erection of a new combination iron and steel
bridge near st. Paul, the eastern division
The structure will be 500 feet long, and seventy
feet above the bed of the stream it A
very oltncult piece OF engineering will be neces-
sary before the structure is placed in position
The road bed on either side has been raised four
feet above the old grade, and the new bridge is
to be placed &C the same elevation, while the
work is to be done without interference in the
movement of trains
General and miscellaneous.
party of English and Holland capitalists
have started on an extended trip over the
Canadian Pacific.
Pierrepont Morgan said yesterday that the re-
cent contract of the Baltimore G. Ohio road with
the syndicate had been ratified by the board of
directors
The Northern Pacific is naturally unwilling
to see its Canadian rival handle the wheat traf-
fc of the Northwest. and will make strong
fight to prevents.
The Southern Kansas road is now open TO
Canadian City in the Panhandle district of